From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #48 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, February 23 2005 Volume 04 : Number 048 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:02:53 -0500 From: Brian Andersen Subject: Re: seven-seas Blog? (was 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Echo') yeah, what he said! You always manage to put into words a very clever way of saying what i am thinking. I guess thats why you are a writer and I am a computer geek. On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:19:34 -0800, Charles Pham wrote: > Hey Chris A- > ever thought about starting up a blog? I'm sure i speak for others on > the 7seas list when i say you're postings are great to read...on so > many levels. if you had a blog, I'm sure I'd visit daily. > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:05:53 -0800 (PST), chris adams > wrote: > > I thank Eddie Money and his ilk every day, for without them, punk rock would never have had anything to react against. "Two Tickets To Paradise" produced "Two Fingers To Flatulence." That said, I'm still agog that Ronnie Spector sang on one of his records. Phil must've been late with the alimony that month. > > > > I do think The Bunnymen deserve a much wider audience, and it kinda suprises me that they're still on the fringes, still a culty kinda thing. They coulda been huge in the early to mid-80's, but that's not gonna happen when, a week after you break the top 20, yr on the Outer Hebrides following ley lines, or trynna trace the "bunnygod" image across half the globe, or what have you. Which was great, of course, but doesn't translate into sales. But these days, with everyone from Coldplay to Courtney dropping their name, and the Donnie Darko thing, you'd think more people would bother checking them out. I think it's possibly got a lot to do with, in this IPod-happy ADD culture (and I think ADD is a lot more of a reactive social phenomenon than an internal illness), the idea of an "album" or even "band" is becoming archaic or antiquated. Music is becoming viewed as increasingly disposable ear candy, a "lifestyle accessory," and if it ain't "chirpy chirpy cheep cheap" (sic) ! > th! > > en it's > > not gonna sell on a mass scale. So much of what's marketed as "alternative" is just Hanson with hair gel. I mean, "Jimmy Eat World"? Right. More like "Jimmy Suck Shit." (OK, not really that bad, but the Gang of 4 they're not . . .). > > > > Nothing new, really, I guess. I'm sure there are far more people who pepper their store-bought pret-a-porter "opinions" with "Velvet Underground" than people who have regularly experienced the sheer depth, breadth, and arguably girth (heh) of the Velvets' brilliance. To which I respond with a shrugged "Fuk 'em." Their loss. > > > > Chris A. > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > > ====================================================================== > > - -- - -Brian Andersen bandersen65@gmail.com ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:57:57 -0800 (PST) From: chris adams Subject: Re: seven-seas Blog? (was 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Echo') Thanks. To be honest with ya, I'm really not farmiliar with how blogs work. The word "blog" has always sounded so graceless that I've never looked into it. "Hey, didja see my blog?" translates to me into "Hey, check out what I left in the toilet." Whaddaya do with 'em, how d'ya do 'em? - -Chris A. Brian Andersen wrote: yeah, what he said! You always manage to put into words a very clever way of saying what i am thinking. I guess thats why you are a writer and I am a computer geek. On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:19:34 -0800, Charles Pham wrote: > Hey Chris A- > ever thought about starting up a blog? I'm sure i speak for others on > the 7seas list when i say you're postings are great to read...on so > many levels. if you had a blog, I'm sure I'd visit daily. > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:05:53 -0800 (PST), chris adams > wrote: > > I thank Eddie Money and his ilk every day, for without them, punk rock would never have had anything to react against. "Two Tickets To Paradise" produced "Two Fingers To Flatulence." That said, I'm still agog that Ronnie Spector sang on one of his records. Phil must've been late with the alimony that month. > > > > I do think The Bunnymen deserve a much wider audience, and it kinda suprises me that they're still on the fringes, still a culty kinda thing. They coulda been huge in the early to mid-80's, but that's not gonna happen when, a week after you break the top 20, yr on the Outer Hebrides following ley lines, or trynna trace the "bunnygod" image across half the globe, or what have you. Which was great, of course, but doesn't translate into sales. But these days, with everyone from Coldplay to Courtney dropping their name, and the Donnie Darko thing, you'd think more people would bother checking them out. I think it's possibly got a lot to do with, in this IPod-happy ADD culture (and I think ADD is a lot more of a reactive social phenomenon than an internal illness), the idea of an "album" or even "band" is becoming archaic or antiquated. Music is becoming viewed as increasingly disposable ear candy, a "lifestyle accessory," and if it ain't "chirpy chirpy cheep cheap" (sic! ) ! > th! > > en it's > > not gonna sell on a mass scale. So much of what's marketed as "alternative" is just Hanson with hair gel. I mean, "Jimmy Eat World"? Right. More like "Jimmy Suck Shit." (OK, not really that bad, but the Gang of 4 they're not . . .). > > > > Nothing new, really, I guess. I'm sure there are far more people who pepper their store-bought pret-a-porter "opinions" with "Velvet Underground" than people who have regularly experienced the sheer depth, breadth, and arguably girth (heh) of the Velvets' brilliance. To which I respond with a shrugged "Fuk 'em." Their loss. > > > > Chris A. > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > > ====================================================================== > > - -- - -Brian Andersen bandersen65@gmail.com ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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